History A-Level
Medical care and reform
What Medical care and reform means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Medical care and reform
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Hospitals were overcrowded with inadequate supplies and poor sanitation, and diseases such as cholera, dysentery and typhus killed far more soldiers than battle wounds.
Topics that use Medical care and reform
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 2 The Crimean War, 1854–56 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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